Former Anderson County detention officer sentenced to 10 years for sex crime

A former Anderson County Detention Center employee was sentenced Thursday to 10 years behind bars after being convicted of a sex crime.

According to a statement from prosecutors, Fredrick Harrison Towe, 49, sexually assaulted someone between the ages of 15 and 17 over a period of nearly two years.

A Pickens County jury found Towe, listed as a Clemson resident in court documents, guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree with a minor.

Towe was employed as a 911 communications operator and detention center officer with the Anderson County Sheriff's Office from April 2012 to March 2016, according to a previous report in the Greenville News.